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One of the people my ministry tries to support is John Ball’s ministry. John just sent me something that I wanted to pass on to you. Please read what he wrote as it is very true.
2 Corinthians 4:18
“While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
Things dramatically change when your perspective is different. Here is an example: someone offers you $100 million cash, the Mona Lisa painting, or a gallon of water; of course you would pick the money or the painting, valued at $780 million today. But, if you were in the middle of the Sahara desert, hundreds of miles from anything and thirsting to death, you would chose the life giving water. The other items would be worthless to you due to your circumstance.
As we look at the world around us, we see many lights, bells and whistles, temptations of every kind calling out our names. Most of the world is running after such things, building bank accounts, building dream homes and stacking up toys galore, believing that life is in the abundance of the things they possess (Luke 12:22, 23, 30). They are ignorant of the life of God, and therefore run after the only hope they see. It is all vanity, a chasing after the wind (Ecclesiastes 4:4).
We need a whole new perspective: a heavenly perspective. If all we have is this world, then let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. But when the light of God shines in our hearts, and He gives us new eyes to see, giving us an eternal perspective, then everything changes. The pleasures of this world become dim in comparison, no longer are you chasing worldly pursuits which fade away, but now you live for the will of God (1 John 2:15– 17).
Once you see that this life is like a vapor, and all its glory is like a flower that fades away, then your life’s agenda changes. As Paul said, we do not look at what is seen but what is unseen, for the seen is temporary, but the unseen is eternal. Dear reader, is this you? Has the light from heaven given you a new look on life, or do you still live for this world?
I encourage you today, while you have breath in your lungs: pursue heaven! Use your short life for the thing that counts. Use this worlds goods for the glory of God, holding possessions with a loose hand, for they will soon decay anyway. Provide yourselves a heavenly treasure that will never fade away. Do you see it? Do you see the unseen?
Love in Christ, Jonathan Ball
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“I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.” Amos 9:15
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. Jeremiah 24:5-6
Headline: Jews Are Leaving France: 10,000 to Arrive in Israel in 2015
France is bleeding Jews. The onslaught of radical Islamic terror combined with growing anti-Semitism has finally persuaded the country’s most loyal immigrants that it’s time to leave. One of Britain’s most influential Jewish journalists, Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard, said on Friday, “Every single French Jew I know has either left or is actively working out how to leave.” Pollard’s comment came shortly after French police had ordered shops along Rue de Rosiers in the famous La Marais Jewish neighborhood to close in central Paris. The measure was taken as a precaution following the terror attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery that left four people dead and others injured. More than 100,000 French Jews have left the country since 2013, according to sources quoted by The Daily Mail.
Jan. 12, 2015
Headline: UN to hold meeting Jan. 22 on growth of anti-Semitism
The U.N. General Assembly will hold an informal meeting on the growth of anti-Semitism on Jan. 22 in response to a request from dozens of nations, including Israel, the United States and all European Union members. The 37 countries sent a letter to assembly President Sam Kutesa on Oct. 1 calling for a meeting in response to “an alarming outbreak of anti-Semitism worldwide.” That was well before last week’s attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor said Monday: “We have a great deal of work to do to move this issue from the headlines to the history books.” The killing of four French Jews in last week’s hostage standoff at the Paris kosher market was just the latest to raise fears among European Jews. It follows killings at a Belgian Jewish Museum and a Jewish school in southwestern France. The Jan. 22 meeting will feature a keynote address by French philosopher and author Bernard Henri Levy and speeches by representatives from several countries. The letter, whose signatories also included Rwanda, Uruguay, Canada and Australia, noted Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement last Aug. 3 expressing concern at the spike in anti-Semitic attacks. “At rallies, crowds have chanted ‘Gas the Jews” and ‘Death to the Jews,'” the letter said. “Firebombs have been thrown at synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses have been vandalized.”
Jan. 12, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/un-hold-meeting-jan-22-growth-anti-semitism-183101745.html
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanon violence: Bomb blast hits northern city of Tripoli
Headline: Lebanese security forces raid prison after suicide attacks
Headline: Nusra Front threatens action against Lebanese soldiers after prison raid
A suicide bomb attack in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has killed at least seven people, in the latest violence linked to Syria’s civil war. The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, said it was behind the attack, which also injured 30 people. The blast, on a cafe in a predominantly Alawite neighbourhood, was the first major attack in Lebanon for months. There has been tension in the past between Tripoli’s Sunni Muslim majority population and its Alawite minority. Lebanon’s National News Agency said the attack was carried out by two men from Tripoli, where longstanding religious tensions have been exacerbated by the war in neighbouring Syria. In a statement, the Nusra Front said the attack was “in revenge for the Sunnis in Syria and Lebanon”. Meanwhile, The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front threatened on Monday action against members of the Lebanese security forces it holds as captives after police stormed a wing of the country’s largest prison where Islamist militants are detained. “As a result of the deterioration of security in Lebanon, you will hear about surprises regarding the fate of the prisoners with us,” the Nusra Front said on its Twitter account.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30765820
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-mideast-crisis-lebanon-nusra-idUSKBN0KL0LJ20150112
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Al Qaida in heavy fighting with pro-Iran forces defending Shi’ites towns in Syria
Al Qaida is targeting Shi’ite communities in Syria. Al Qaida’s Nusra Front for the Defense of Levant has been attacking Shi’ite towns in northern Syria. On Jan. 8, Nusra opened an offensive against Nubul and Zahra, which prompted a vigorous defense by Shi’ite residents in the Aleppo province. “The attack began on Thursday [Jan. 8 ],” Nusra said. This marked a rare offensive by Nusra on Shi’ite communities in Syria. Nusra has expanded operations in northern Syria after expelling U.S.-supported Sunni rebel militias in late 2014. Syrian sources said Nusra embarked on its second attack on Nubul and Zahra within a week. They said Nusra sustained high casualties in the assault against the two Shi’ite communities, defended by residents as well as the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah and National Defense Forces. The towns are located near the highway to Aleppo. Nubul and Zahra, with a reported population of 40,000, have long been targeted by Sunni rebels. Islamic militias have sought to impose a siege on the towns since 2013. Nusra was also involved in heavy fighting around Aleppo city. On Jan. 7, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported battles that included Nusra against Hizbullah and Shi’ite fighters from Afghanistan and Iran. “Information reported an advance by Nusra and battalions in the area,” Syrian Observatory said.
Jan. 9, 2015
Syria Headline: Report: Syria’s Assad building facility for the production of nuclear weapons
Syria Headline: Syrian rebels: Iranian officers spotted near site of reported nuclear facility
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, with the aid of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, is building a nuclear weapons device, Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. “Syria’s dictator has not given up his dream of an atomic weapon and has apparently built a new nuclear facility at a secret location. It is an extremely unsettling piece of news,” the German newsweekly reported, citing “secret information” that it obtained. “Analysts say that the Syrian atomic weapon program has continued in a secret, underground location. According to information they have obtained, approximately 8,000 fuel rods are stored there. Furthermore, a new reactor or an enrichment facility has very likely been built at the site – a development of incalculable geopolitical consequences,” Der Spiegel continued, sourcing its information from Western intelligence agencies. A Hezbollah militia functionary called the underground site “Zamzam”; it is located west of the city of Qusair in the Homs Governorate, less than 2 km. from northeastern Lebanon.
Jan. 10, 2015
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Suicide bomber kills 12 in Iraq, sparks fighting between security forces and ISIS
A suicide car bomb killed 12 Shiite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers Monday in a town north of Baghdad, authorities said, sparking a battle between security forces and fighters with the extremist Islamic State group. The suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a gathering of soldiers and Shiite fighters in the town of Abasiyat, just south of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, police said. Police and hospital officials said the attack killed 10 militiamen and two soldiers, while wounding 18 people. Clashes between Iraqi security forces and militants from the Islamic State group erupted immediately after the attack, police said, though the extremists did not immediately claim responsibility for the bombing. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Jan. 12, 2015
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report Jan. 9-11, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/iraq-situation-report-january-9-11-2015.html
Kurdish Headline: Islamic State group battle in Iraq kills 30 Kurds
Islamic State group fighters attempting to retake a town in northern Iraq held by Kurdish peshmerga forces have killed at least 30 Kurds, an Iraqi military spokesman said Sunday. The battle for the town of Gwer demonstrates the Islamic State group’s ability to still launch offensives in Iraq, despite a monthslong campaign of airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition. And while an alliance of Iraqi troops, Kurdish fighters and Sunni and Shiitte militiamen have made some gains, their advance remains tenuous at best. The fighting began Saturday as the extremists approached Gwer, just outside of the northern city of Mosul, which the Islamic State group controls, said Halgurd Hekmat, a spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish forces in Irbil. Hekmat said he had no information about casualties suffered by the Islamic State group. Backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, Kurdish forces retook Gwer in August
Jan. 11, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/official-islamic-state-group-battle-iraq-kills-30-122419283.html
Headline: German Newspaper Offices Firebombed After Printing Hebdo Cartoons
A German newspaper was firebombed overnight after it printed cartoons from the Charlie Hebdo magazine. Several newspapers have been reprinting cartoons originally published by the French satire magazine in a gesture of solidarity after the brutal terrorist attack last week in which 12 people were executed by Islamist terrorists. Charlie Hebdo‘s cartoonists were targeted specifically for publishing cartoons which depicted Islam’s prophet Muhammed. Radical Islamists deem such portrayals to be so heretical that people deserve to die for merely drawing and or publishing such cartoons. An incendiary device was thrown through the window of the German newspaper, Hamburger Morgenpost, (German Morning Post, also known as “Mopo”) Saturday night, Jan. 10-11. No one was in the building at the time, but documents caught fire. The official twitter feed of the newspaper stated: “It is true, tonight there was an attack on our editorial staff.” Another tweet exclaimed, “Paris was just the beginning of the apocalypse in Europe.”
Jan. 11, 2015
Headline: France deploys 10,000 security forces, approximately half to Jewish schools
France will have more than 10,000 soldiers mobilized on home soil by Tuesday after 17 were killed in attacks carried out by Islamist militants in Paris last week, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. Speaking a day after the biggest French public demonstration ever registered, held to remember the victims, he said France was still at risk of further attacks. “The threats remain and we have to protect ourselves from them. It is an internal operation that will mobilize almost as many men as we have in our overseas operations,” Le Drian told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
Jan. 12, 2015
Headline: US Central Command Twitter feed hacked by ISIS supporters
The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command was apparently hacked on Monday, with pro-ISIS messages plastering the account’s profile. The first message was posted at 12:29 p.m. ET, with the words “AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS.” and the hashtag “#CyberCaliphate.” The profile’s image was replaced with a photo that includes the text “i love you isis.” Just before 1 p.m. ET profile and banner images were reverted to their default. Around 1:09 p.m. ET the Twitter account was suspended. A YouTube page labeled as belonging to Centcom was also apparently hacked. By 1:30 p.m. ET, that page had been blanked. “We can confirm that the U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised earlier today. We are taking appropriate measures to address the matter,” a defense official told NBC News. Later tweets included images of what were apparently spreadsheets labeled as containing the contact info and home addresses of retired U.S. army generals.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102330338#
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: Ukraine crisis: Rebels ‘intensify Donetsk and Luhansk attacks’
Pro-Russian separatists have intensified their shelling of government positions in eastern Ukraine, military officials say. Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have reportedly been killed in the latest violence in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Officials said the spike in attacks followed the arrival of a Russian aid convoy in the region on Thursday. Ukrainian military officials said the soldiers had been killed following a surge in mortar and rocket attacks on army positions in eastern Ukraine. They claim the Russian aid convoy that arrived in the region on Thursday was used as cover for bringing military supplies to the rebels. Meanwhile separatist leaders in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk say two civilians were killed in clashes around the city’s bitterly contested airport, AFP news agency reports.
Jan. 9, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30744825
Iran
Headline: Iran eclipses US in Iraq’s fight against militants
In the eyes of most Iraqis, their country’s best ally in the war against the Islamic State group is not the United States and the coalition air campaign against the militants. It’s Iran, which is credited with stopping the extremists’ march on Baghdad. Shiite, non-Arab Iran has effectively taken charge of Iraq’s defense against the Sunni radical group, meeting the Iraqi government’s need for immediate help on the ground. Two to three Iranian military aircraft a day land at Baghdad airport, bringing in weapons and ammunition. Iran’s most potent military force and best known general — the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force and its commander Gen. Ghasem Soleimani — are organizing Iraqi forces and have become the de facto leaders of Iraqi Shiite militias that are the backbone of the fight. Iran carried out airstrikes to help push militants from an Iraqi province on its border.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-eclipses-us-in-iraqs-fight-against-militants/
Afghanistan
Headline: Afghan general confirms ISIS is active, recruiting in south
Afghan officials confirmed for the first time Monday that the extremist Islamic State group is active in the south, recruiting fighters, flying black flags and, according to some sources, even battling Taliban militants. The sources, including an Afghan general and a provincial governor, said a man identified as Mullah Abdul Rauf was actively recruiting fighters for the group, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. Gen. Mahmood Khan, the deputy commander of the army’s 215 Corps, said that within the past week residents of a number of districts in the southern Helmand province have said Rauf’s representatives are fanning out to recruit people. “A number of tribal leaders, jihadi commanders and some ulema (religious council members) and other people have contacted me to tell me that Mullah Rauf had contacted them and invited them to join him,” Khan said. But he said the Taliban, which is active across Helmand and controls some districts, have warned people not to contact Rauf.
Jan. 12, 2015
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Sudan
Headline: S.Sudan rivals in Khartoum for China-led peace talks
Warring South Sudanese rivals met for Chinese-mediated talks in Khartoum on Monday, agreeing to “immediately work to stop hostilities,” Sudan’s foreign minister said. The rivals also agreed to “speed up the pace of negotiations to form a transitional government,” Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti told reporters after the meeting. Karti added that the talks were initiated by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, who was in Khartoum for a two-day visit. China’s role in organising the talks signals its growing interest in South Sudan, where it has said it will send combat troops as part of a UN peacekeeping force. Representatives from South Sudanese President Salva Kiir’s government and rebel factions were meeting ahead of a summit organised by East African bloc IGAD in Addis Ababa on Sunday aimed at ending the fighting.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/sudan-rivals-khartoum-china-led-peace-talks-190736160.html
Libya
Headline: Libyan ISIS affiliate claims kidnap of 21 Christians
A Libyan affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed the abduction of 21 Coptic Christians and released pictures of the captives. The claim and photos were posted Monday on jihadi forums used by ISIS supporters. The Egyptian workers were seized last month in the central Libyan city of Sirte. “The soldiers of the Islamic State in the province of Tripoli hold captive 21 Christian crusaders,” the photo caption read. Abu Makar, an Egyptian priest from the workers’ hometown of Samalout, in southern Egypt, confirmed that the pictures are of the captives. A Coptic activist, Magdi Malak, said that he met with families of the captives and that they confirmed the authenticity of the pictures.
Jan. 12, 2015
Germany
Headline: Merkel says Islam ‘belongs to Germany’ ahead of Dresden rally
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday Islam “belongs to Germany”, in a clear repudiation of anti-immigration protesters gathering in Dresden and other cities. A day after walking arm-in-arm with French President Francois Hollande at the front of a massive march in Paris to honor the victims of killings by Islamic militants, Merkel received the Turkish prime minister and urged dialogue among religions. The conservative chancellor pointed to comments made by former German president Christian Wulff, who said in 2010 that Islam was part of Germany, triggering a fierce debate. “Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion,” Merkel said at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who also took part with other world leaders in the Paris march on Sunday. She was speaking hours before marches by a movement dubbed PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, were due to begin in several German cities.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/01/merkel-says-islam-belongs-to-germany-ahead-of-dresden-rally/
Turkey
Headline: Erdogan Attacks Netanyahu for ‘Daring’ to Attend Paris March
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for “daring” to attend the weekend’s anti-terror solidarity march in Paris, accusing him of leading “state terrorism” against the Palestinians. The comments were the latest verbal assault against Netanyahu and Israel in general by Erdogan, under whose rule Turkey’s relations with Israel have steadily deteriorated. “I also hardly understand how he (Netanyahu) dared to go there. For once, you give an account for the children, women you massacred,” Erdogan told a joint press conference in Ankara alongside Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas and Netanyahu, as well as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, all joined the solidarity march in Paris in the memory of 17 people killed in Islamist terror attacks last week. But Erdogan said Netanyahu had no right to be there following Israel’s 50-day conflict with Islamist terrorists in Gaza.
Jan. 12, 2015
****And here’s irony for you:
Headline: Turkish FM says woman wanted in Paris attack crossed into Syria from Turkey on Jan. 8
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189850#.VLQevHuxXhI
http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-fm-says-woman-wanted-paris-attack-crossed-084215118.html
Headline: Turkish PM: There Should Also be a Rally Against ‘Islamophobia’
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday hailed the unprecedented rally against terror in Paris as a strong message to the world, but added he would expect a similar reaction to attacks on Muslims and “Islamophobia”, according to AFP. Davutoglu joined dozens of other world leaders at the march in Paris to mourn the victims of the three days of terror by Islamists that began with the slaughter of 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. “It is a message to the whole world that everyone must confront the threat of terror,” Davutoglu was quoted as having told reporters at the Turkish embassy in Paris in televised comments. “We would expect the same sensitivities to be shown to attacks on mosque or Islamophobia,” he added after attending the rally which mobilized over a million people in Paris alone.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189807#.VLQgi3uxXhI
Armenia
Headline: Armenia Says 2 Killed in Skirmish on Border With Azerbaijan
The Armenian Defense Ministry says a clash with a group of Azerbaijani gunmen has left two people dead. The ministry said the incident occurred late Sunday when a group of Azerbaijani gunmen tried to cross into Armenia. It said Monday that an Armenian civilian and an Azerbaijani intruder were killed in the skirmish. The Armenian forces let Azerbaijan recover the intruder’s body. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry denied that such incident had occurred, according to the Interfax news agency.
Jan. 12, 2015
https://www.google.com/search?q=+Armenia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=Armenia&tbm=nws
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Nigeria: ‘Girl bomber’ kills 19 people in Maiduguri market
Headline: Boko Haram attacks town in north Cameroon, killing one
At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in north-eastern Nigeria, police say. The bomb exploded in a market in the city of Maiduguri, in Borno state. “The explosive devices were wrapped around her body,” a police source told Reuters. No group has said it carried out the attack. The market is reported to have been targeted twice in a week by female bombers late last year. Correspondents say that all the signs point to the militant Islamist Boko Haram group. Borno State police spokesman Gideon Jubrin said that the girl bomber let off an improvised explosive device near the area of the Maiduguri market where chickens were sold. In other violence reported on Saturday a vehicle in Yobe state exploded at a checkpoint near a police station, killing at least two people. The blast follows heavy fighting in the Yobe state capital Damaturu on Friday night, with buildings destroyed and civilian casualties reported. Hundreds of people were killed on Wednesday in an assault by Boko Haram on the town of Baga, following on their seizure of a key military base there on 3 January, Scores of bodies from that attack – described by Amnesty International as possibly the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram – are reported to remain strewn in the bush. District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims in the Baga attack were children, women or elderly people who were not able to escape when insurgents forced their way into the town by firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30761963
http://newsdaily.com/2015/01/boko-haram-attacks-town-in-north-cameroon-killing-one/
Headline: Ex-Pakistan Taliban members join IS group, behead man
Headline: Taliban counters French-led Western unity demo with pledge of allegiance to ISIS chief Al Baghdadi
An online video released Saturday purports to show former militants of the Pakistani Taliban pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and beheading a man they identify as a Pakistani soldier. The video shows former Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid along with dozens of other militants in a wooded area. Shahid already announced his support for the Islamic State group in an audio message in October. He was later replaced by the Pakistani Taliban. Other militant leaders who identify themselves as from Afghanistan and Pakistan also pledge their support to the Islamic State group. At the end of the video, the militants behead a man they identified as a Pakistani soldier.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/video-ex-pakistan-taliban-members-join-group-behead-173815927.html
Headline: Haiti protesters clash with police in anti-Martelly march
Protesters in Haiti have clashed with police in a demonstration calling for the resignation of President Michel Martelly over long-delayed elections. Police in the capital, Port-au-Prince, fired tear gas and sprayed water on hundreds of demonstrators. Haiti is facing a major political crisis, as the mandates of its lawmakers expire at midnight on Monday. If there is no agreement to extend their mandates, Haiti will be left without a functioning government. Mr Martelly would then have to rule the country by decree. The opposition accuses him of abusing his powers.
Jan. 10, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30763738
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: OPEC price war in Asia intensifies as oil falls below $50
Headline: U.S. Stocks Fall as Crude Slump Weighs on Energy Shares
Headline: Russian economy in crisis mode
Even as Saudi Arabia and its Gulf OPEC allies appear united in their refusal to cut output to boost global oil prices, they are becoming locked in an increasingly fierce battle to secure market share in Asia. Oil prices have slumped below $50 a barrel, the weakest since 2009, triggering a price war between producers to secure customers in Asia. And the price outlook remains grim with Goldman Sachs slashing its three-month benchmark crude forecasts to just above $40.[O/R] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week joined Kuwait and Iraq in pricing crude they sell to Asia below that of OPEC’s top producer Saudi Arabia. The discounts show how Gulf members, who account for more than half of OPEC output, are prepared to take on each other to retain market share and, in so doing, put more pressure on global oil prices. “It’s a fight for the market,” said Tushar Bansal of consultancy FGE, who says Gulf producers such as the UAE are prepared to stomach lower prices to hold their market share.
Jan. 12, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-mideast-crude-asia-idUSKBN0KL0VJ20150112
Headline: Venezuelan shortages, long queues spark violence, arrests
At least a dozen protesters arrested over the weekend in Venezuela remained in jail on Monday amid unrest over swelling queues for basic goods, opposition and rights activists said. Sixteen people were rounded up by police for protesting in front of stores over the weekend, according to the opposition MUD coalition, which said four of them were released shortly after. Rights group Penal Forum said 18 protesters were still behind bars on Monday. The government did not confirm the numbers. Venezuela, mired in a recession and with the highest inflation rate in the Americas, is suffering from chronic shortages of goods ranging from diapers to flour that have worsened this year due to an ebb in deliveries during Christmas. The scarcity of goods has forced many shoppers across the OPEC nation to queue up in front of supermarkets before dawn. The inflation rate hit 63.6 percent in the 12 months to November.
Jan. 12, 2015
Apostasy & Alternative Lifestyles Amos 8:11, 1 Timothy 4:1-3 & Romans1:26-27 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (1 Timothy) “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.” (Amos) “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due”(Romans)
Headline: Irish priest receives standing ovation after revealing he is gay
A Catholic priest in Dublin has receiving a standing ovation from members of his church after revealing he is gay during mass. Father Martin Dolan, who has served the inner-city Church of St Nicholas of Myra for the past 15 years, made the unusual step of coming out in support of gay marriage and added: I’m gay myself”. Speaking to the Irish Sun, community youth worker Liz O’Connor said: “We are all very proud of Father Martin. Because he has admitted that he is gay he doesn’t change the person that he was before it.” A source within the Catholic Church said “It was very brave. He said he was gay. That was it…no bones about it.”
Jan. 10, 2015
Headline: North Carolina city removes sculpture of soldier kneeling before cross
Until a few days ago, a war memorial in a public park in North Carolina included a metal sculpture depicting a soldier kneeling in prayer before a cross. But city officials voted to remove the sculpture to settle a lawsuit claiming the artwork promoted Christianity. King, a small city of about 6,000 people 15 miles north of Winston-Salem, dedicated the memorial about a decade ago. But the statue was removed Tuesday night, immediately after The King city council voted 3-2 to end the lawsuit. Now, an empty hole can be seen where the statue once stood. MyFox8 in Winston-Salem, reporting on the controversy the other day, said the memorial is on city-owned land but was paid for through private donations. “Both sides in this matter wish to avoid further costs, and this agreement will ensure that the City of King will not spend additional taxpayers’ funds to continue litigation in federal court,” the city said in a statement after the vote. As part of the agreement, the King City Council also said it would stop flying the Christian flag over the memorial and would pay $500,000 to Americans United for Separation of Church and State for the legal costs the group incurred bringing the lawsuit on behalf of local Afghanistan War veteran Steven Hewett.
Jan. 11, 2015
Headline: Pope Francis: ‘You Cannot Be a Christian Outside the Church’
Pope Francis baptized 33 children on Sunday morning, the day that Christians celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In his homily, the Pope told parents to teach their children that “you cannot be a Christian outside the Church, you cannot follow Jesus Christ without the Church, because the Church is mother, and makes us grow in love for Jesus Christ.” The children are baptized, Francis said, into “the faith of the Church.” He said that baptism “inserts us into the body of the Church, the holy people of God,” where “faith is transmitted from generation to generation.” This faith, Francis insisted, “is the faith of Mary, our Mother, the faith of St. Joseph, St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. John, the faith of the Apostles and Martyrs, which has come down to us through Baptism: a chain of handing on the faith.” Finally, the Pope suggested that his hearers pay more attention to the Holy Spirit. In Baptism, he said “we are consecrated by the Holy Spirit.” The word “Christian” means that we are consecrated as Jesus was, anointed in “the same Spirit in whom Jesus was immersed throughout his earthly existence.” He urged the parents and godparents, “if you want your children to become true Christians, help them grow up, ‘immersed’ in the Holy Spirit, that is, in the warmth of God’s love and in the light of his Word.” He also invited them to pray more to the Holy Spirit. “We usually pray to Jesus,” Francis said. “When we pray the ‘Our Father,’ we pray to the Father. But we don’t pray so much to the Holy Spirit. It is so important to pray to the Holy Spirit,” he said.
Jan. 11, 2015
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Scientists record 5 small earthquakes in Connecticut
Five small earthquakes were recorded within a 5 1/2-hour span in eastern Connecticut on Monday, including a 3.1-magnitude quake that was felt in parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, according to the Weston Observatory at Boston College and the U.S. Geological Survey. The quakes followed two in the same area last week, including a 2.0-magnitude quake Thursday and a 0.4 magnitude Friday. All the quakes were centered near Danielson and in northern Plainfield. Four of the quakes on Monday were within a 20-minute span starting just after 6:30 a.m., including the 3.1-magnitude quake that was felt in parts of Rhode Island, including Providence, and more than 60 miles away in Massachusetts in New Bedford and Framingham, scientists said. A 1.3-magnitude aftershock was recorded just after noon.
Jan. 12, 2015
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:4-6
